This Week in Weird, Aug. 28

Bad-behaving drivers, a naughty neighbor and more in this week’s edition.

Motorist gets in argument, shows off his buttocks, police say

PEMBROKE, Mass. -- A Pembroke man was arrested after he stopped to flash his buttocks at another motorist, police said.

Scott Smith, 48, was arrested early Monday and charged with second-offense drunken driving and indecent exposure.

Smith was driving west on Route 139 just after midnight Monday when another driver called police to report that Smith was swerving and driving erratically, Pembroke police Chief Michael Ohrenberger said.

After several minutes, Smith stopped at a traffic light and got out of his vehicle to pull down his pants and moon the other driver while yelling at her, Ohrenberger said.

Police officers who were sent to the area caught up with Smith on Route 53, where he was spotted weaving in and out of lanes, police said.

Smith was then pulled over on Route 14, where he failed a field sobriety test and was arrested, police said.

It was his second arrest for drunken driving. Ohrenberger said the first offense did not occur in Pembroke.

Police: Bloody fight continues in moving car

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- Two men face charges after a bloody fight on Wednesday that had one of them hanging out the window of a moving car, leading to a crash, police said.

The fight started when Charles Gargone Jr., 44, ordered Paul A. Mucci, 31, out of Gargone's home about 5:40 p.m., police said.

Mucci threw coffee at Gargone and left. But Gargone jumped in Mucci's car and hung out the driver's side window as the car went down the street, police said.

Mucci was taken to Marlborough Hospital, where he was treated for a bloody nose and released, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Police filed a criminal complaint application in court for Mucci and Gargone on charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct, Vaillancourt said.

Mucci also faces a negligent driving charge.

Woman comes home to find neighbor in her apartment

JACKSON TWP., Ohio -- A woman arrived home early Thursday morning to find a man behind her open front door.

Police said the man was a neighbor, who had used the previous tenant’s key to let himself in. The key had been entrusted to him by a former neighbor who moved out two months earlier.

Stark County Jail records said the former resident of her apartment had given Ronald W. Phillips, 46, a key upon moving out. The outgoing neighbor allegedly asked Phillips to turn it in to the landlady.

Phillips told township police that about 5:30 a.m. Thursday, he had found the key and went to turn it over to his new neighbor, knowing that her car wasn’t parked outside, jail records said. He knocked, but no one answered.

So he let himself inside “taking the chance that the victim’s young daughter could be home,” the jail records said.

Then the resident returned home.

She found the door open, and Phillips hiding behind it, police said.

When she started screaming, he “relinquished the key and left the apartment,” jail records said.

Phillips was arrested at 6:40 a.m. Thursday at another apartment on a burglary charge.

Police say teens stole street signs

NATICK, Mass. -- Three Natick teenagers had stolen a High Street sign and were trying to steal the Greenleaf Road street sign when they were arrested yesterday, police said.